Multiple measurements muddle global inequality debate
Growing social discontent and political mobilisation are stimulating research on inequality
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In this article
- The distribution of wealth
- Concentration at the top
- Use of tax statistics
- What to measure
- Income versus wealth
- Income versus consumption
- Individual versus household
- Working population versus the whole population
- Other outcomes
- Indicators of inequality
- The 'Palma ratio'
- Other indicators
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- Human Opportunities Index
- What we are trying to measure matters
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